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: Evening Out Humbles Older Rivals in Get Ready Purse Speedy Widener Filly Beats Grecian Queen Decisively in Prep Event for New Castle By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 28. Mrs. George D. Wideners Evening Out, last years champion juvenile filly, met older opposition for the first time in this afternoons featured Get Ready Purse and. came through with flying colors as she won easily while completing a mile and a sixteenth in 1:44. Mrs. Ben F. Whitakers Grecian Queen, displaying her best effort of a hertofore disappointing season, was second, a length and a half behind the winner and a similar distance before Mrs. Marion W. OConnors La Cor-redora. Just a neck behind the latter came Isidor Biebers Nothirdchance. Woodhouse in Saddle With Hedley Woodhouse astride her for the first time, the daughter of Polynesian Evening Belle was a solid .20 choice with the crowd of 13,105. Her record was sufficient to make her the favorite, then too, she was in receipt of 20 pounds in actual weight from both Grecian Queen and La Corredora and nine pounds from each on the scale. The score was worth ,500 and sent Evening Outs lifetime earnings to 42,510. Evening Out moved to the fore in the run to the first turn and was being nicely rated while turning the quarter in :22 and the half in :46. It was not until the final turn that she was allowed to- ramble a bit and she moved the six furlongs in Continued on Page Fifty-Two Evening Out Set I For New Castle Humbles Older Rivals in Get Ready Purse; Grecian Queen Places at Delaware Continued from Page One 1:11. With a three-length lead after a mile in 1:38, she was being eased in the late stages and still proceeded to go out a mile and a furlong in 1:52. Another who went out for nine furlongs was La Corredora, who covered the distance in 1:52, after having been crowded by Nothirdchance through the stretch. The first four finishers in this special prep race for the 00,000 added New Castle Handicap, worlds richest race for filliess and mares, are eligible for the July 5 running of that mile and a quarter. Off their efforts today, it seems reasonable to believe that all will remain here . for a shot at the big money, which went last year to Grecian Queen. Spring Maiden to Imbursed The fourteenth running of the Delaware Spring Maiden Steeplechase was the sec- j ondary attraction on the card and the ,650 winners share went to Morris H. Dixons Imbursed, who prevailed by a, half length over L. R. Troianos favored King Commander. The two finished 12 lengths clear of Brookmeade Stables Bavaria. Imbursed was nicely handled by Eddie Deveau, a triple "bug" rider and the 30-pound pull he received from King Commander held him in good stead and he completed the about two miles 15 jumps course in 3:47. The winner returned .80. Bavaria was responsible for much of the pace in this infield event, with King Commander taking over on the final turn, accompanied by Imbursed. The latter out-jumped his rival at the final obstacle and held on determinedly for the victory.
